A Deadly – and Perfectly Normal – Rookie Trap That Can Cost You Years on the Learning Curve
Important post today. With an attached tutorial that just might change who you are as a storyteller. Don’t skim this one. Not ironically, that (skimming) is the very thing that can cost you years (or decades, I kid you not) of development time… when it is the craft itself that you are skimming and short-changing. There’s a […]
A Free Reading Guide to Use with ‘Story Engineering’
A guest post by Jennifer Blanchard (Quick pre-read note from Larry — Jennifer Blanchard represents the best possible outcome for me as a writing teacher, blogger and author. She’s someone who had looked for clarity for many years relative to how to write a novel – really write a novel – and when she found […]
The Whole “Story Engineering” Enchilada Overview, via 20 PowerPoint Slides
Trying to teach the full enchilada comprehensive overview of the Story Engineering writing mindset in one hour – 50 minutes, to be more accurate – is like trying to equip a teenager for college, marriage and a corporate career during a quick lunch at Applebees. As if one could actually keep the attention of a […]